Initial Ideas- Our Thriller

Plot Synopsis

• Our story is set in South London in 1995. In a rough neighborhood.
• A teenage girl (16) has been kidnapped, the police have been called and the mother is struggling with the realization.
• The mother cannot cope with the depression and she breaks down. Meanwhile her daughter is being abused by her kidnapper.
• They run away and move far from the police, her kidnapper manipulates her and forces her into marriage.
• Years later she goes back to her neighborhood and sees that it is destroyed. She knocks on her old door and finds out her mother doesn't live there anymore.

Possible Locations

I took all of these images at night because i wanted to display the settings in the dark to make them fit the Thriller genre better. These are mundane locations because my groups film is about a girl who gets kidnapped. This also ties in with the fact that it is dark because it indicates danger and venerability.

Analyising our genre through VoxPops

These VoxPops were a useful way to get the viewers opinion on Thriller films so we know what are conventions and what are not. This is audience reaserach I've done as I found a variety of opinions.

Survey

5 people who filled out my survey were female and 10 were male. Therefore the majority of opinions  are males and they are the majority.

The majority of women preferred low-key lighting  and the majority of males also preferred low-key lighting. This proves that the audience expects to see low-key lighting within the opening sequence of a Thriller film and this means that low-key lighting is a convention of a Thriller opening sequence.

This Pie Chart shows the ages of the females that filled out the survey. The majority of females who filled out the survey are 11-16. 

This Shows the ages of the males who filled out the survey. The majority of them fall in the age group of 17-25.

This is out of everyone who filled out the survey- grim, quiet music is expected more than loud, shrieking music therefore making grim and quiet music a convention of a Thriller.

Title Sequences

This Prezi presents information and research i did on title sequences. This helps me when it comes to creating the titles for my opening sequence because it gives information about different title sequence, how the vary and what sorts if order they come in. 

Conventions of a Thriller

THRILLER

Mise en scene

- Thrillers are normally set in mundane locations like a house or an abandoned house. The props may consist of weapons that give clues to the crime that has been committed.
- There is low key lighting to create an unpleasant atmosphere and an uncomfortable mood.

Characters

- A protagonist could have a team or another person (secondary protagonist) to help them figure out the problem. 
- There is the authority where they are in denial about what has happened and they need persuading to realise what bad things are happening.
- An exposer exposes the person or thing that is causing terror and they uncover how to solve the problem. 
- Antagonists are the villains that cause all the fright and issues.
-The protagonists sometimes come out as antagonists- its always the last person you would expect.
-Protagonist normally are blamed at one point and things sp horribly wrong 

Cinematography

- A lot of long shot are used to show locations and spacial awareness
- Also extreme close ups are used to give away clues and add suspense.

Editing

- Editing gets faster with confrontation and it mixes with the music to build tension to be built up to the climax.

Themes

- Serial killers 
- To do with mental illness
- Story line to do with something that can actually happen in real life

Sound

- Lots of high pitched scores 
- screeching noises 
- mainly incidental music 

Plot

- Twists and turns and solving a misery
- More to do with solving the problem then all the gore and violence otherwise it would be a horror.

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